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Robot Carnival

10min

Action & Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Comedy

Animation

An anthology of various tales with robots being the one common element among them. It consists of nine shorts by different well-known directors, many of whom started out as animators with little to no directing experience. Each has a distinctive animation style and story ranging from comedic to dramatic story lines.

Production Companies

APPP Company

Streamline Pictures

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

Opening

1. Opening

10min

21st Jul 1987

A boy finds a small "coming soon" poster advertising the Robot Carnival, and becomes frightened and agitated. He warns the people in his village, most likely to escape, when a huge machine with many robots performing on its exterior grinds its way right towards the village.

Franken's Gears

2. Franken's Gears

10min

21st Jul 1987

Deprive

3. Deprive

10min

21st Jul 1987

Presence

4. Presence

10min

21st Jul 1987

Starlight Angel

5. Starlight Angel

10min

21st Jul 1987

Cloud

6. Cloud

10min

21st Jul 1987

Strange Tales of Meiji Machine Culture: Westerner’s Invasion

7. Strange Tales of Meiji Machine Culture: Westerner’s Invasion

10min

21st Jul 1987

Chicken Man and Red Neck

8. Chicken Man and Red Neck

10min

21st Jul 1987

Ending

9. Ending

10min

21st Jul 1987

First air date

21st Jul 1987

Last air date

21st Jul 1987

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

ja

Networks